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Re:A look inside Dialector, filmmaker Chris Marker's chatbot... by ravi_nandan on Tuesday March 17, 2026 @04:58PM (#47418212)
Also trying to run this on actual Apple IIe. Have the BASIC but stuck on the same problem. Binary files OWL, KAT, FACE, all of that. Using Claude too to help. Have emailed the Poptronics team too but wondering if anyone here has come across them.
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Re:A look inside Dialector, filmmaker Chris Marker's chatbot... by durakot on Tuesday March 17, 2026 @10:52PM (#47421075)
I think it's Beagle Basic, too: http://www.apple-iigs.info/doc/fichiers/BeagleBasic.pdf
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Re:A look inside Dialector, filmmaker Chris Marker's chatbot... by stfnkbck on Wednesday March 18, 2026 @12:31AM (#47421605)
Author here. Funny who you can run into on HN. Anyway, worthy project.

These images: https://dialector.poptronics.fr/dialector_documents/ADisquet...

Plus this converter: https://github.com/KrisKennaway/ii-pix

...should get you closer. You'll still be missing a few files though, the full listing of the original disk contents (all the images, etc) is here: https://dialector.poptronics.fr/dialector_documents/ADisquet...

And yeah, as durakot pointed out it's Beagle Basic.

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Re:A look inside Dialector, filmmaker Chris Marker's chatbot... by ravi_nandan on Wednesday March 18, 2026 @10:01AM (#47425924)
Amazing - thank you for stopping by too. Super helpful. Will come back with anything else that I find too. Fun project.
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